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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16797, 9 November 1928, Page 10

LIQUOR IN FACTORIES A CANADIAN EMPLOYER CONDEMNS PROHIBITION ■‘Writing.to, the New Zealand Licensing Reform Association in May of this year. 'Mr. ■F. Barry Hayes,, president of tha "'Boronto -Carpet .Manufacturing Company, which employs some two thousand hands, indicatfes some of the reasons why prohibition has -been abandoned in Canada, aftpr an’extensive period of "trial, ;and. State Control installed in its p|ace: Mr. Hayes writes as one who has, by experience, been converted from an advocate of “extreme prohibition” to a supporter of Government control. His letter is as • follows : The Toronto Carpet Mig. Co., Ltd., Toronto, Canada, Slay 23, 1928. Mr.- 'R. A. Armstrong, pominion Secretary, ■The.,-New 'Zealand Licensing . . Reform Association, Wellington, N.Z: Dear Sir,— I have your favor of the 24th ult,, in reference to prohibition in Canada, / , As far as I can Judge, doing away with-prohibition and adopting G.overniherifc control has been all to the good. ‘Whim prohibition canm ip first, as » largo employer of labor (having about 2000 employees in our different factories), wo were ardent advocates of it, and 1 ■must say that during the war pur employees lived up to its requirements; but, after the war, they seemed to consider that'their liberties were being interfered with, and resented that, with the. result tha instead of drinking beer they took to bringing flasks into the factories - and workrooms, with bad results. , Since Government control has been in force, this has all been done away with, and we think very much less drinking is being done, because the people can only buy from dispensaries, so that the excesses that took place under prohibition aro more or less eliminated. With our young people in social sets, girl and boy both invariably carried flasks with them to dances, which had a very detrimental effect on them. This has away with alpiost. altogether under the control, i.c., a host can now provide some kind of cup —claret or wine or even punch—and, as the young people are not restricted, and know that they "can get mote if they require it, they do not go to excesses in any way. In regard to the general health of the community; under prohibition a lot of bootlegging liquor was sold, and many deaths and impaired health was the result, as a great deal of the liquor yas .synthetic gin and illegally-manufactured goods. \ I do not thing that the people generally would ever return to prohibition a gain, and I may sav I am a convert from extreme prohibition to Government control. The fact that we have no sales of liquor in the bar as it used to be is quite .a factor. All treating, which was .a bane; to life in the old days, is done away withYours very truly, (Sgd.) F. Barry Hayes “ (President). The ’ foregoing is but one of hundreds of similar communications received from leaders of thought in all walks of life in panada. They are unanimous in condemning •.prohibition (after an actual experience" of that system" extending over nianv years), and in praising State control." The example of our sister British Dominion should be given due considera(ion by the people of Now Zealand, who will, at the approaching poll, have the opportunity of declaring for true temperance by voting for State Purchase and Control. —(3)

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